I can’t help but wonder what happened to this beetle. Did it pick up a tiny scrap of fungus during its meanders through the undergrowth, then stayed alive until the day came when the fungus had grown so extensively that the beetle could no longer move? Or did the beetle die, then fungus spores blown by the wind settled on its body and began to devour it? There’s no way to know for sure though, for the beetle’s sake, I hope it was dead before it was attacked. Oh, and as you can perhaps tell by the background, this was yet another find from my local park railings.